I’m no expert on CCTV in buses, and it might be a dumb idea. But David Sale, the father of a bus collision victim, has repeatedly hammered at these meetings that TriMet should train cameras on its operators, for use in cases like his daughter‘s or the Lahcen Quochbane incident this summer, in which a bus driver was apparently reading a Kindle while driving on the highway during rush hour.

So the lack of a solid judgment on the camera question seemed strange.

Among the task force’s firm recommendations: An all-purpose citizen’s advisory committee for TriMet, a ban on the word "accident" from internal discourse and identification of safety "hot spots" around town, including the Portland Transit Mall.